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Five countries, Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, and Egypt will join the BRICS group of emerging-market states on January 1, 2024.  BRICS New Babies Are Born ............................. We Waiting: pomatimes@gmail.com  .............................. Support this publication: First Bank Plc 2023425189 ............................... South Africa’s ambassador to the bloc, Anil Sooklal, disclosed this in an interview on Friday. The BRICS group, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, asked six other nations to join their alliance in August, with the goal of challenging the US-led global order. Russia created the alliance in 2009, and it now represents 42% of the world’s population, 30% of the global geography, and 24% of global economic production. The five invitees accepted the invitation by attending a BRICS sherpa summit earlier this month in Durban, South Africa, and are likely to send representatives to another meeting ...